Sound

ok I have many questions this time.  I set this variable before but for 
get where it was.  There is something that emerge can to to 
automatically write over existing configuration files.  And when I first 
installed gentoo I set it to do that, not knowing how annoying it could 
be.  Now I hope someone can help me in changing that back, as when I ran 
emerge world a lot of settings were deleted, some of which have been 
easy to change, and some not.

Examples include I had to change my xdm from "xdm" to "gdm" and set the 
defalut session to gnome.  Another which I am having trouble with is 
sound.  Apparently the modules I had auto-loading before do not now do 
the same thing.  the two most important are snd and snd-powermac.  Which 
arises the question does anyone have ALSA or OSS working with gentoo 
with a gentoo kernel?  I used to have sound working through OSS but I am 
not sure whether I changed the vanilla kernel I was using to the gentoo 
kernel before I stopped listening to music or not.  Currently all I have 
been able to get working for gnome output is ESD ( I am not Surprised), 
though I don't ever remember installing esound.  So maybe it was 
installed by emerging gnome or something like that.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

--Mike S
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